englisch‘Turkish Studies’ deal with the history, culture, religions, languages and literature of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The scope of the book includes everything relating to Turkey, e.g. Kurdish, Armenian, Greek or Jewish matters, as well as its relations with the Turkic [...]

englischIn 1898, the academic discipline Byzantine Studies was founded by Karl Krumbacher at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Since then, Byzantine Studies have been thriving there for more than one hundred years. PD Dr. Sergei Mariev (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, [...]

englischIn this book, the authors proceed from the theory that the organ can be regarded as a symbol of traditions and forms of codification, in which the spirit and history of our continent to date are reflected. Independent of political boundaries and religious denominations, this instrument [...]

englischThis historiographical study deals with the transformation of heroic images of German and French soldiers and officers during the Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A culture of sensitivity, levée en masse and intensive forms of opinion management on the part of [...]

englischThis book is dedicated to the forgotten intellectual Léo Wanner, who intervened in the political landscape in the 1920s and 1930s with public statements and strategic ingenuity. Based on historical sources that were opend up for the first time, the diverse role repertoire of this globally [...]

englischConrad Ekhof (1720–1778) is known for establishing the realistic style of acting in German theatre–like Garrick in Britain–, turning strolling troupes into state theatres, and transforming jesters who lived at the fringes of society into distinguished artists and respected citizens. The [...]

englischBetween the age of confessionalization and the comprehensive edicts of tolerance of the late 18th century lies a period in which research emphasises the role of the confession in very different ways. The concept of tolerance existed in the intellectual history, but the regulations of the [...]

englischThis dissertation is the first to examine the soldier's tax as a special case of the tribute system during the Thirty Years' War. Since "contribution" has two meanings, the term "soldier's tax" is introduced. Ideally, it describes a direct form of army financing, independent of [...]

englischInvestigating the use of language in pieces of visual art enables a sensual experience of its complexity. This study is therefore built like an exhibition: Based on over eighty paintings it scrutinises versatile constellations of language use and highlights its prototypical contingency. This [...]

englischWhile Kurt Tucholsky's political struggle and provocations against Weimar society have gone down in literary history, there has been a lack of critical examination of his relationship to the new media that began to shape modern reality at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Berlin [...]

englischThis study examines late 20th century depictions of embryonic development derived from the Quran, which are referred to as a scientific miracle of the Qur'an. This approach of harmonizing religious and scientific knowledge has so far only been evaluated as a marginal phenomenon. Using the [...]

Der Band behandelt die Schrift- und Buchgeschichte des griechischsprachigen byzantinischen Reiches aus der Perspektive einer Sozialgeschichte. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Schrift in ihrem Wechselspiel mit den Akteuren (Schreiber, Leser) und damit verbundene sozialgeschichtliche Aspekte wie die Wahl [...]

englischWith "Erste Erde", Raoul Schrott has presented a text that attempts to grasp the entire body of knowledge about the world - and thus inscribed himself in the tradition of polymaths such as Alexander von Humboldt, who pursued a similar goal with his "Cosmos" in the 19th century. Schrott thus [...]